Factory farming

Will Rickels Livestock living Conditions Have you ever driven by a feedlot full of cattle that are buried up to their bellies with manure? How about seeing the methane gas that they have no choice but to constantly breathe? Maybe you know about the millions of hogs that are currently locked in confinement. These are the reasons why America’s livestock need better living conditions. The first major issue with livestock is the lack of bedding that they receive. Animals need bedding to stay dry.…

Have you ever heard about what caged animals at factory farms get treated all the way wrong. They give a lot of antibiotics so they can grow faster and larger. Also have you ever read on a carton of eggs that says cage free well cage free basically the same thing. I am going to tell the benefits on free range animals. Free range is allowing chickens to have some access to an outside area. Animals deserves living under conditions that allow them the chance to seek happiness (which is…

With the market for white meat drastically increases, the chicken farms have to produce chickens that meet the demand. But today quality of white meat drastically falls due to the bad conditions of life that the chickens have in farms. The farms are producing fast growing chickens that are constantly eating without the worries of what will happen next. About nine billion chickens raised in the U.S. each year are selectively bred to grow large, in a short amount of time. This problem matters…

For years, farms were thought of as the farmer that woke before the sun to tend to the livestock and the children would work the farm after school. This is no longer the case, these small-scale farms fight to compete with the larger industrial factory farms that have…

What if all the CAFOs shut down and everyone had to go back to growing their own beef. This would affect all people that live in Indiana because at the beginning prices of meat would skyrocket in the first few years and then level out. (Cohn, 2014) People think this would be both good and bad and I will tell you why. First, we will talk about producers and what will happen to them if there was a law passed that banned CAFOs. If this happened the people who own and work at CAFOs would be out of…

products are commonly accepted as what farms today look like; there is nothing serene about how food is produced today. The dairy and meat food process starts with Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). These CAFOs can also be recognized as factory farms, which are designed to produce a large quantity of cheap calories, making it possible for the average American to consume 190 pounds of meat alone in a given year. CAFOs have also brought a lot of problems to the food industry. The animals…

In Michael Pollan’s “An Animal’s Place” Pollan provides an argument on whether or not Americans should consume animals, and specifically, if the fashion in which animals are farmed and slaughtered respects their capacity to suffer. Pollan illustrates his personal dilemma particularly when he ironically points his debate on whether or not to eat meat began while he was dining at a steakhouse. To develop his argument, Pollan initially exclusively uses the citation of animal rights activists, but…

The Factual Jungle When Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” he simply wanted a better-work environment and not for people to question what they were consuming. I believe that what Upton Sinclair wrote about the meat packing factories and the conditions of life in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s is true. Jurgis and his family lived their life similar to the actual real families in the height of this era according to Biennial Report of 1890. Even what Jurgis experienced everyday while working in…

RR3: Appreciation for the Past In chapters five and six, Kingsolver brings up the importance of family farmers, family history, tobacco, and turkey. Her husband, Steven Hopp, addresses how the CAFO mistreats animals. To start off, in chapter five, Kingsolver begins with a story about a man by the name Sanford Webb. He was the original owner of farm she and her family live on. She tells this story because it shows how her family came about finding the home. She also wants to show how every part…

Settlers could obtain 160 acres of land for paying a small fee, living on the land, and improving the land (“The Farming Frontier”). Thus, settlers were flooding into the American West and bringing their cattle to graze on the open range, which was open to the public. As stated, a cattle rancher could graze their cattle for no expense on the public domain and reap high…